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 pip install sentence-transformers
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-Please note that embedding sentences on GPU-enabled machines is much faster than those with CPU only. The following experiments are conducted using [Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/) which provides free GPU service.
+Note that embedding sentences on GPU-enabled machines is much faster than those with CPU only. The following experiments are conducted using [Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/) which provides free GPU service.
 
 ## Evaluation Corpora
 Bertalign is language-agnostic thanks to the cross-language embedding models  [sentence-transformers](https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers).